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I know that you are looking for a comparison of just those two, but might I recommend that you also consider a Netgear ReadyNAS? ReadyNAS is generally considered the most cost effective and most "enterprise" of the products in this category.

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I know that you are looking for a comparison of just those two, but might I recommend that you also consider a Netgear ReadyNAS? ReadyNAS is generally considered the most cost effective and most "enterprise" of the products in this category.

Same 1U, 4 drive configuration that the Synology box has, but you can buy HP's enterprise support with it and put whatever drives you want in it. 4 x 3TB SATA drives = 12 TB RAW or 6TB effective in RAID 10.

I did think about using a server, but because we are moving the data to the main site i didnt really want another installation of Windows, probably sounds daft but i just wanted plain storage to make the data availble.

Moving the servers over to NAS would let me trim the count of 2003 server in the company.

I did think about using a server, but because we are moving the data to the main site i didnt really want another installation of Windows, probably sounds daft but i just wanted plain storage to make the data availble.

Moving the servers over to NAS would let me trim the count of 2003 server in the company.

But generally it is a good idea yes, thanks for you input.

Ha!

Use something like FreeNAS as the operating system to turn the box into a NAS server. For free.

I did think about using a server, but because we are moving the data to the main site i didnt really want another installation of Windows, probably sounds daft but i just wanted plain storage to make the data availble.

Moving the servers over to NAS would let me trim the count of 2003 server in the company.

Same 1U, 4 drive configuration that the Synology box has, but you can buy HP's enterprise support with it and put whatever drives you want in it. 4 x 3TB SATA drives = 12 TB RAW or 6TB effective in RAID 10.

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I did stick freenas on a test PC but didnt think much to it, is it reliable for holding millions of pounds worth of data?

It's a Web front-end for FreeBSD. Is that trustworthy?

Isn't that all a NetApp is ;)

Its technically a kernel-space module that only reuses a handful of things (like drivers). if your going to build a proprietary OS within kernel space, at least they choose one hell of a stable platform to do it on (as opposed to EMC that uses Windows).

I know that you are looking for a comparison of just those two, but might I recommend that you also consider a Netgear ReadyNAS? ReadyNAS is generally considered the most cost effective and most "enterprise" of the products in this category.

I have QNAP's and I support this statement :)

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"Best from Worst"

PS I even use clustered ReadyNAS at home :) QNAP Turbo-something went history after 2.5 month of use BTW.

Whoops... Lost this one so necro-posting :) It used to be a pair of ReadyNAS Duo V2 with a dual controller head running other software so ReadyNAS units were used as a storage blocks (2*1.5TB in RAID0 each) only.

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